Lost Between A Baby Boomer And A Gen X'er

You're Lost Between A Baby Boomer And A Gen X'er If...


You remember when Jordache jeans were cool

In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt with the collar up

You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song

The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories

You ever rang someone's doorbell and said "Landshark!"

Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar

You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone for the weekend

You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV

A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid

While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans to get together again at the end of the century and play

Prince's "1999" until you passed out partying

You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was

You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan

You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars behind you

You've ever conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you ignorant slut!"

You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older, you really understand that it would have been much better had you known about drugs at the time

You've recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phases:

When I was younger...
When I was your age...
You know, back when...

Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language

You're starting to view getting carded to buy alcohol as a GOOD thing

You ever dressed to emulate a person you saw in either a Duran Duran, Madonna or Cyndi Lauper video

The first time you ever kissed someone at a dance came during "Crazy for You," by Madonna

You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old Big Wheel quite obsolete

The phrase "Where's the beef," still doubles you over with laughter

You honestly remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON

Girls thought Sean Cassidy was dreamy, and lusted after Ted the photographer on The Love Boat

You freaked out when you found that you now fall into the age category on most questionnaires

Your hair at some point in time in the 80's became something which can only be described by the phrase, "I was experimenting"

This timeline appropriately describes actual events in your life:

Star Wars opens, you are still in single digit ages, and you think the creatures are WAY cool
Empire Strikes Back opens, you are now in early double digit ages, and you are convinced that the special effects are much better, the characters are cool, and you want one of every collectible out there
Return of the Jedi hits the theaters, you are now a teenager and you cannot get your eyes off Princess Leia's breasts or Han Solo's butt

You've ever shopped at a Banana Republic or Benetton, but not in the last five years, okay

You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all

You're doing absolutely nothing pertaining to your major

You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon

U2 is too popular and mainstream for you now

You ever used the phrase "Kiss mah grits!" in conversation

You remember trying to guess the episode of the Brady Bunch from the first scene

You spent endless nights dreaming about being the Bionic Woman or Wonder Woman or the Six Million Dollar Man

You had ringside seats for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital

You remember, "Hey, le's be careful out there."

You're parents wanted you to attend medical school, but you decided it was pointless since Quincy got all the babes anyway

You know who shot JR

This rings a bell: "...and my name is Charlie. They work for me."

You were unsure if Diet Coke would ever catch on after all

You know all the words to the double album set of Grease

You ever had a Dorothy Hammill haircut

You sat with your friends on a Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny would answer

All skate, change directions, means something to you

You owned a pair of Rainbow suspenders just like Mork used to wear

You bought a pair of Vanns and wanted to order a pizza in history class so you could be just like Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

You owned a preppy handbook

You were too young to go see the Blue Lagoon so you just had to settle for second hand reports

You remember when there was only PG and R none of this PG-13 crap

You learned to swim about the same time Jaws came out and still carry the emotional scars to this day

You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch

You actually believed everything Leonard Nimoy told you on "In Search Of..."

Your jaw would ache by the time you finished those brick sized packages of Bazooka gum

Bo and Luke Duke

VCRs cost $2,000

There was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together

Rotary dial telephones

You actually believed that Mikey, famed for his Life cereal commercials, died after eating a packet of pop rocks and drinking a Coke

The theme song to Greatest American Hero still comes back to you on occasion